Margaret Woodrow Wilson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Title

Margaret Woodrow Wilson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Creator

Wilson, Margaret Woodrow, 1886-1944

Identifier

WWP17380

Date

1907 March 17

Description

Margaret writes to Jessie about upcoming travel and social plans.

Source

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University

Language

English

Text

Dear darling little Jetty

I am so ashamed of myself for not having written to you at the beginning of this week instead of the end. Forgive, me please.
I am so glad you are coming home so soon, sweetestJessie. Oh it will be lovely to see you again! I have to be away five days of your stay, for I am going to Baltimore a week from Monday, for three days. On Friday of the same week I am going up to New York to hear Parsifal with Uncle Stockton.
The first part of this letter was written after breakfast, and had to be put by because I had such dreadful pains, that I had to undress and liye down. I am feeling better now, and am sitting out in the balmy air on the side piazza. Dean Robbins was here to lunch with his curate that he talks so much about, a young cherub faced man, who, however, seems very intelligent and good; and with them was an Englishman and his wife, queer specimens as usual, but he seemsed quite intelligent. They all came down to see Princeton.
We are going to have a dinner Friday night. You are to go out with a Mr Gerauld preceptor in English, a most attractive man. Mr Eisenhardt will be on the other side of you.
How long holidays have you dearie? I hope very long. It is too bad that the “Grand Opera Season” in Baltimore begins during the holidaysThe last Treisel quartette came off Tuesday. Mr Brown took Adeline, Mr MacDonald Tantchen, Mr Miles Katherine, and Mr ll me. After the concert we went down to Mrs Miles house, and had a lovely time talking and eating. Old Mr Schraeder played a beautiful sad stirring solo of Chopin's on the 'cello—You know this is his last appearance in Princeton, for he is going back to Germany.
Please tell me why they elected Flora President after all? It will be the ruination of her health.Jess do try to work up an interest in Beth Budly. She is so attractive. Don't let the girls let her go just through laziness.
And so you are to be Imogene's Uncle's maid. What fun! I didn't know that you and she were such friends. Who is the man. You might as well tell me all about it, now that I have found out about the engagement.
You haven't written a letter to me individually since I don't know when!Well, darling I can think of nothing more exciting to tell you. Adeline and I and Mr Miles and Mr Brown took a long walk the other day that was very, very pleasant.
I will be glad when the baseball and canoeing season begins.
Give my best love to the gals, and keep as much as you want your darling self. Goodbye dear Jetty.

Lovingly
Margaret

Original Format

Letter

To

Sayre, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, 1887-1933

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MWtoJWS19070317.pdf

Citation

Wilson, Margaret Woodrow, 1886-1944, “Margaret Woodrow Wilson to Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre,” 1907 March 17, WWP17380, Jessie Wilson Sayre Correspondence, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.